What does freedom mean to you?

Freedom is honestly the most important thing in life for me, my underlying hidden tenet to approaching reality and everyday life.  In my understanding of the word, that is.

Freedom to me is freedom to be oneself, freedom to yell, freedom to burn, freedom to look at the constructs of society and be able to pull oneself away from it all while still living functionally within it, freedom to speak one's mind, freedom to fall in love, freedom to feel the raw pain of something lost; freedom to do what you want, freedom in not being attached to what you want.

Freedom to laugh and love without negativity conflicting, freedom to cry and bawl when it is necessary...freedom to not care what others think of you, freedom to respect all life, most especially my own.  Freedom to live my life, with ease and peace, no matter what I am doing (freedom to know that it doesnt matter what I do, because I am alive for it all, which is a gift beyond itself), and when I feel like it, with ecstatic explosions of energy and groove-time.

Mostly freedom to me though, is the ability to lay against a tree with the sun setting in front of me, and feel that this is all I need, all that life is, and all that I am.  Freedom to me is just the essence of truly be-ing.  Living simply, living easily, slipping in and out of this flow of life.  Freedom.